Jan 13 Digging Through Rubble, Haitians Hunt for Signs of Life By Hari Sreenivasan After speaking with us earlier today by phone, we were able to establish a Skype video connection with journalist Ansel Herz who has been covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. “A lot of… Continue reading
Jan 13 Expert: Haiti Faces Trouble Sheltering Throngs of Quake Victims By Hari Sreenivasan Haiti expert Robert Maguire of Trinity Washington University, who is also chairman of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Haiti Working Group, stopped by the Rundown this afternoon to discusses how the nation had been trying to recover… Continue reading
Jan 13 Scientists Explain Geology of Haiti Earthquake By Lea Winerman Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country's Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past centuries. That's because Hispaniola, the Caribbean Island Haiti… Continue reading
Jan 13 Reporter: In Port-au-Prince, Haitians Aid Each Other Amid Slow Quake Rescue Efforts By Simon Marks Ansel Herz, a Texas native and freelance journalist, spoke to us this afternoon from outside a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where he has been living for four months. He described scenes of carnage and desperate attempts… Continue reading
Jan 13 Raw Footage: Earthquake Disaster in Port-au-Prince, Haiti By Maureen Hoch This raw footage from APTN shows the damage at the United Nation's office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Stay tuned for ongoing coverage of the situation in Haiti online and on tonight's NewsHour broadcast. Continue reading
Jan 13 Outpouring of Aid Follows Enormous Haiti Quake By Talea Miller Pledges for financial aid and rescue workers for Haiti are pouring in from around the globe, as aid organizations on the ground start to assess the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis left in the wake of Tuesday's devastating quake. Country… Continue reading
Jan 13 Creedon: Just Before Quake, ‘Signs of Progress’ in Haiti By Simon Marks Father Gerry Creedon, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Arlington, Va., has been visiting Haiti for 19 years and left Port-au-Prince Tuesday morning -- just hours before the massive quake struck there. Creedon arrived in Haiti on… Continue reading
Jan 13 Initial U.S. Effort Focused on Saving Lives By Quinn Bowman The top coordinator for the U.S. response to the massive earthquake in Haiti said the government's first priority is to direct resources toward finding and rescuing people trapped by the earthquake. The U.S. Agency for International Development's Administrator Rajiv Shah… Continue reading
Jan 13 Obama: U.S. Coordinating Swift Response to Haitian Earthquake By Quinn Bowman President Barack Obama pledged this morning that the United States would offer a rapid response to help Haiti dig out from the "especially cruel and incomprehensible" 7.0 earthquake that shook the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. "I have directed my administration… Continue reading
Jan 13 Haiti Relief Effort: How to Contribute By Jason Breslow For readers looking to contribute to the relief effort in Haiti, here are a few of the organizations collecting donations. NPR has also compiled a list, which you can find here: Hope for Haiti Now Action Against… Continue reading